Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul yesterday urged him his Armenian counterpart Vardan Oskanian to respond to goodwill gestures he made at unofficial meetings between the two countries that have no diplomatic relations. "I've met the Armenian foreign minister six times, it's no secret. We have no diplomatic relations but we do have contacts," said Gul. Turkish daily Milliyet yesterday said meetings had been held over the past three years in neutral locations with the aim of establishing a raft of ten confidence-building measures between the two. Relations between Turkey and Armenia have been dogged by, among other events, the mass killings of Armenians during the fall of the Ottoman Empire (the predecessor of modern Turkey) 90 years ago.